So that’s why Brandon Stokley was out after the first half on Sunday: he done got concussed for the 10th time in his career. [Sporting Blog]

More reasons for West Virginia fans to fume: your head football coach gave credit to the Syracuse coaching stuff on their team’s improvement. Yes, the one led by the awful Greg Robinson, who’s about to get fired (‘Cuse fans hope.) [Dr. Saturday]

Wanna look smart this year when some teams do damage in college hoops that no one was expecting? Marco and Eric have their sleeper picks ready for you. [Storming the Floor]

Digging up the games we used to play back in the day. I didn’t own VCR Basketball, but a friend of mine did — we thought it was awesome, of course, and forgot about it as soon as we got Nintendo systems as gifts. [Ball Don’t Lie]

It’s hate week for Tennessee and Georgia fans, thus, a Vol fan and a Dawg fan take us on a demented journey in which forbidden love enters the bounds of holy matrimony. [Snarkastic, Hey Jenny Slater — chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4]

(1). A short bit on Howard’s remarks: famous Voltaire quote aside, if you cannot see that a black man in America, raised in North Carolina, not even 50 years after black people finally gained the right to vote in the U.S. (and are still fighting to maintain it through every manner of voter disenfranchisement), might have enough resentment towards much of this country (one that denied his ancestors basic human rights and agency for centuries, yet still harbors institutionalized racism in much of its operating policy today) to say what he said on a camera phone about the Star-Spangled Banner, you’re beyond help.